Hotfix for January 2016
Jeff here from the SDK team. This month there is only 1 public hotfix because of the holidays. 3047331 “0x00000050″ Stop error on a failover cluster that is running Windows Server 2012 R2 or...
View ArticleHotfix List for February 2016
Hi guys, Jeff here from the Windows SDK team. Here are the Windows hotfixes for February 2016. KB3007507 “HTTP Error 500.19″ error when you browse an IIS 8.5 website in Windows KB3090343 Cluster...
View ArticleWhy does SqlDataReader behave differently with Set-PSDebug enabled?
We recently had someone ask why their PowerShell script stopped working correctly when they enabled tracing with the command Set-PSDebug -Trace 2. The part of the code in question that didn’t work...
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Visual Studio Team Services and Personal Microsoft Accounts
Visual Studio Team Services and Personal Microsoft Accounts 10/5/2016 Update – Due to the unexpectedly high impact to many corporate VSTS accounts backed by Personal Microsoft accounts, VSTS accounts...
View ArticleWhy can’t I restore files even when I have backup/restore privileges enabled?
Backup and restore privileges allow some, but not all, types of access checks to be bypassed. Typically those are sufficient to allow a backup utility to restore data to even sensitive folders....
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Leveraging Exploit Guard in Windows Insider Build to Easily Audit Your Code
If you are a software developer and are looking to improve upon the security compliance of your software, there is a feature in the current Windows 10 Enterprise Insider Preview (as of 10.0.16253 - I...
View ArticleOpenService() fails on a service marked for deletion on Windows 10, Version...
OpenService() fails with error code 1060 or ERROR_SERVICE_DOES_NOT_EXIST when a service is marked for deletion (DeleteService). This is a known bug. It should be fixed on the next version of Windows.
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